The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-01-05
A Citizen Of Randolph County Almost Relieved
of $500.
a Destructive Sunday Morning Fire Reported
From Knightsville, Clay County.
Five Feet Of Snow in Portions Of Northern In
diana Belated Trains.
Missing From a Stsamboat-IndIana Wolf
Hunters-A Half Breeds Suicide-New-
Years Items-Other Specials.

UNION CITY, Jan. "a few weeks since
two smooth, unpretending sharks struck
this town by the way of the Dayton and
Union Railroad, and made inquiries, in a
mysterious way, for man by the name OF
Fletcher, 1ntimating that they had bust
ness of importance with him; and as our
place afforded no one of that name except
the careful and sedate old John Fletcher, they
decided to go to indianapolis and other In
CIana towns and carefully inquire after the
Fletcher families. In few days they re-
turned and ,confdentially informed
the Fletcher they wanted, and that
sn immense fortune was at bis command If
he would follow their instructions and keep
the secret until 8 proper time for its
full disclosure; that a rich and mex
haustlble mine of gold existed somewhere
in the mines of cd Mexico, the
exact location of which was known only
TO one, an old Mexican halfbreed Indian.
and that no person could by any means OBJ
tain the secret OF its location from him ex-
cept a white man by the name OF Fletcher,
or some one of his descandents.
To demonstrate and prove the truth
and good faith of their story, they
asked John TO accompany them into the
1orest among the hills near Dayton, Ohio,
free OF expense, where they would find
The Mexican Indian with the tangible evil
dence Of unlimited wealth. Visions of wealth,
IONS of gold, aroused our otherwise circunl-
spect old friend John, until he laid awake
all night, and took the early train for Day
ton, with the two sharks
Carefully guarding their secret, they eau
tiOusly wenGed their way into the woods
among the hills not far from the city, where
they found the old greaser who desired TO
enrich some one by the name of Fletcher,
and the mseting between John and the
mixed aborigine Was warm and cordial.
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"SpOEdulix' wss, be pointed to brush
heap, whence one Ct the sharks brought forth
two gid ed bricks about eight inches square,
welded together and said to be worth about
$4,000. and that these were only sample
OF tons Of the same where they came from;
that ready cash was needed TO convey the
entire party to the spot and develop the
mine, and they did not ask John to take any
risk, bat to bore out of the bricks a sample,
take il to the city and have it tested by
competent judges
John did as directed, and found that the
sample assay ed s. 80 pure gold.
They modestly suggested to John If he
would raise $ 500 he could hold the
$4,000 bricks as security, aud they
would accompany the Indian to the
mine snd work it for all that
was out, and in a short time make Jay Gould
and the VaLderbilts feel sick, but it must be
kept profound secret.
John decided 10 take stock; in fact, he
wanted a controlling interest," came home
and confdentially told Cad, President of the
Citizens Bank, that be wanted the use Of
$500 for a short time. By careful
process Cad drew out of John a faint glim-
mering of where he was going to invest the
funds. and gently declined to make the loan,
and advised John that he thought there was
too much richness in it for this earth that
only the streets of the New Jerusalem were
paved with gold and the gates made of pearl.
1t was then that John full of indignation, sor-
rowfully cav the vast fortune almost within
his grasp glide and fade away like the base
less fabric of a vision, and when he told the
two sharks, who were waiting for the money
at the depot, Of his failure to raise the col
lateral, hey also glided away.